First experiments in CNC

[Grond]

The making of Round 5

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[Halvar]

The sorting of round 5

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[Muirium]

The flaunting of Round 5.

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The shipping of Round 5.

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[matt3o]

The pumpkey prototype v0.9

[Nuum]

Whoa, looks awesome, especially with backlight!

[matt3o]

of course this is just a prototype, it needs to be cast on orange resin.

[Muirium]

Inventive!

Is that a backlit keyboard? Looks like a Leopold FC660C to me.

[Halvar]

Seasonal keycaps! A whole new magnitude of wallet hack!

(Halloween might be a bit overrepresented with all those skulls everywhere...)

It does look terrific and it's a great idea.

[Muirium]

May I suggest shiny metal skyscraper?



The possibilities for 3D caps are beginning to look endless!

[matt3o]

I had no red LED apart for the one on the FC660, so I took a picture over the leopold just for the drama.

I'd have so many ideas for novelty keys...

[skrsh3r]

Nice, now if you could try milling some pcb's to see how that goes it would be epic cause i found this http://www.watterott.com/en/Printed-Cir ... le-plating we could actually do double sided pcb's and use these rivets for plating.

[matt3o]

ooh this is really interesting

[rklm]

Please, matt3o, my wallet can't handle too much more excitement!

[peatypeteC]

How can you cnc the top and bottom of the stock and not have the keycap fall out? (i.e. how do you remove your finished product from the stock)

[matt3o]

magic!

nah, you can leave some material and remove it at the end (some use small tabs, but I don't like them much)

[matt3o]

and this is a keyboard case, not yet 100% finished, but I like it.



It's acrylic, but the plate is 3mm with little pockets for the switch clips



Some edges seem rough but that's just some waste material to be removed and acrylic dust/powder.

(bottom is glossy, top is matte)



the plate is 3mm thick but it goes 1.5mm deep into the sides.

[Grond]

Looks amazing!

[benichka]

Yep, definitely...
That is some nice work done!

[DanielT]

Love how it looks

[Muirium]

Mmm… now you're onto something. With CNC, we can essentially submerge individual components into the base by making custom indentations for them. Colour me intrigued.

[Madhias]

Those are 3 objects? Base plate, frame and top plate? Looks very nice! I would say you will populate the term 'European customs'.

[matt3o]

yes, they are 3 items. The case despite being acrylic is extremely sturdy. The side is one 10mm block, the plates 3mm. At the end is very solid.

Also, I'll provide nice matching feet

[Nuum]

Looks awesome, I bet the ultra-thick plate feels very nice. Would it be possible to make the plate out of metal, too? That would be hell of a plate!
Do you plan to sell those cases anytime soon? I probably would buy one for my FaceU.
How are the pieces held together? Glued?

[matt3o]

I don't know if/when I'll sell it. I need some more prototyping. I could do an on demand service, I don't think I want to mass-produce them. I've got an idea to reduce production cost, though. Have to make some tests.

The parts are screwed together (no holes in the pictures yet)

[skrsh3r]

if you can cnc alu we could make some wonderful layered cases

[matt3o]

I can

[pyrelink]

This looks amazing.

[pasph]

Pcb, caps, case: first entirely home made kb?

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Not entirely, switches are still cherry
This thing is so awesome! Verry nice work matt3o!